My cybershot shot is like my baby so at first i was reluctant to hit it too hard but after about half an hour of constant spanking i gave it one good smack in the arse & it came perfect, no more errors & perfect focus, i couldnt believe it i was just about losing hope, especially at one point during the bashing session it actually got more broken & the lcd screen began to look warped. anyway thanx for the good advice people ive just saved myself alot of money, the technician here told me it needed a new part which would cost $200 id love to go back there & show him how to fix cameras by the bashing method. cheers

Hi guys, i just bought a 1g pro duo memory stick used a converter to make it ms not msd. and i get the c:13:01 error, i have formated on the computer, tried banging it, but my old 32mb memory stick duo and 64mb memory stick work in it? i also tried a 2g micro stick duo in a converted and get same error. i am begging to think that the camera cant take a 1g stick a it is old. and help any body goign on holday tom, and i need it, cant carry arounf 8mb and 16mb mem sticks, i will have to change memory sticks after every photo.

I also faced the same problem in my DSC-w35 but we easy soution is to on your CAM menu>> go to Setup>> Format >> confirm format.. it will format the drive and its working fine for me...koooooooool thanks shiva

Hi I bought new Sony DSC T-300 Cybershot mobile. When I insert Sony Memory Card (4GB), the following error occured. Reinsert the Memory Stick (C:13:01) Please advice. Thanks in advance for your valuable suggestion. Regards Srinu

got the same error listened to the suggestion of bending/squeezing the stick... and it friggin worked.. haha

Followed the instructions of an earlier reply: push the memory stick in and out rapidly for 10 to 15 seconds...my F717 and memory stick works fine now thanks! It must've been a dirty connection.

please reply with a solution to this problem thanks, ml

i just purchased a memory stick pro duo adapter(for my older cyber-shot) from ebay. when i inserted the memory stick+adapter into the camera i got the C:13:01 error. i tried inserting it into my computer (HP Pavilion dv2000 has a built-in memory stick slot) and it couldnt re-format the disk... after trying different things i just pulled the adapter piece apart and noticed one of the small tabs was MISALIGNED. i realigned the tab and made sure they were all evenly spaced and it works like a charm.

I have a DSC-P51 Sony Cybershot camera. I purchased a LEXAR 128MB memory stick to replace the original 16MB stick. Got the format error and did the recommended reformatting of the stick in the camera. Now I no longer get the format error message BUT the LCD viewfinder no longer works. Put the old SONY 16MB stick back in and still the LCD ViewFinder remains black. Pelase, does anyone have any advice out there. Best, Candler

i got a error C:13:01 in my memory Stick, in my camera the screen show "this is a format error" what can i do?